Haryana launches scheme to facilitate agro exports

Jind, Jan 11 (UNI) The Haryana State Agriculture Marketing Board has launched an Export Facilitation Scheme which would provide various incentives to the farmers for exporting their agricultural and horticultural products, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said today.

The Board had also launched a Farmer's Marketing Assistance Scheme with a view to help the farmers in marketing by providing them incentives for transportation, packaging and publicity, Mr Hooda said while flagging off the first container of Kinnow fruit here for export to West Asia (UAE).

Mr Hooda said this was a pioneering effort to promote export of fruits and vegetables from the state and added that a number of steps were being taken to provide better marketing facilities for agricultural commodities in the state.

He said the state government was also exploring the possibilities of private sector participation in this field so as to improve the economic condition of the farmers.

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